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Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. Then answer the question that follows.

"No… I just remembered that today's my birthday."
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

What is the effect of the bolded figurative language on the passage?

The alliteration reveals that the speaker believes birthdays are repetitive.
The metaphor reflects the speaker's negative attitude toward growing older.
The personification of the birthday makes the reader realize the speaker's age.
The simile positively compares birthdays to a long and winding road.